What real estate crash? Dubai’s towering ambitions return

Where can you build the world’s biggest mall? How about digging a canal running from the sea under an already built highway? Would it be possible to construct a giant theme park with five different theme parks inside it? It can happen in Dubai.
In years past, the United Arab Emirates’ metropolis made a name for itself by planning projects that seemed to be concocted from sheer flights of fancy — towers that would revolve, an underwater hotel, a suburb replete with mechanized dinosaurs. Some actually came to fruition, such as the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest freestanding tower, and the man-made Palm Jumeirah island. But most vanished like desert mirages in 2009, when Dubai’s debt standstill announcement caused economic shockwaves worldwide………………………………………..Full Article: Source